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yThe Common RatCarmel Bird,
Ringwood:McPhee Gribble,1993Z1661091993selected work short story prose autobiography essay AbstractThese twenty-nine stories and essays bring into strange focus the beauty, violence and irony of everyday day life. Carmel Bird's language is elegant, deadpan, and her dark fables of the last decade of the twentieth century delight and startle. (Source: back cover)Ringwood:McPhee Gribble,1993